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Quotes about doctors
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A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. (Kevorkian Jack)
Cure the disease and kill the patient. (Kevorkian Jack)
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. (Kevorkian Jack)
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth. (Kevorkian Jack)
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Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. (Kevorkian Jack)
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. (Kevorkian Jack)
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. (Kevorkian Jack)
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. (Kevorkian Jack)
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. (Kevorkian Jack)
Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit -- Life! (Kevorkian Jack)
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease. (Kevorkian Jack)
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. (Kevorkian Jack)
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. (Kevorkian Jack)
God heals and the doctor takes the fee. (Kevorkian Jack)
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. (Kevorkian Jack)
The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal. (Kevorkian Jack)
Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. (Kevorkian Jack)
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult. (Kevorkian Jack)
Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm. (Kevorkian Jack)
What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies. (Kevorkian Jack)
It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying. (Kevorkian Jack)
I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. (Kevorkian Jack)
Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement -- they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men. (Kevorkian Jack)
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. (Kevorkian Jack)
Time is generally the best doctor. (Kevorkian Jack)
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